- Solar-powered stadium – 100% of the 50,000 seat stadium’s power will be generated from solar panels.Â
- Review of The Green Ink Brigade – A history of conspiracy theories and how they’ve shaped the world. From Emory.
- Talking Elmo: Now with death threats – Now toys aren’t just trying to convert you to Islam, they’re trying to kill you, too.
- Ray Comfort tampon case – I’ll present this without commentary.
- Cute Animal Friday! I’m not even a dog person but these puppy pics killed me dead with teh floppy-eared cute (from jes3ica). Remember The Engineer’s Guide to Cats? Well, those same engineers have released an Advanced Cat Yodeling video. This banker saved some ducklings from a ledge – you MUST watch the video (from Steve). And when life gets hard, there’s no better way to relax than whack-a-kitty.
Guys (and gals) can use it as a Ray Comfort cigar case. Just don’t get them confused. Ever try and smoke a tampon? I was halfway done when I realized my mistake :(
My boss just walked in and asked me why I was crying. I was gasping for breath from laughing so hard, so I couldn’t explain. All I could do was show him the Whack-a-Kitty video.
@durnett: The slightly annoyed/confused looks on the kittens faces had me giggling like crazy through the whole thing.
That duckling rescue gets me every time (http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/amazingduck.asp, in case anyone is curious). I think Ray Comfort would do better as a condom case. Muah-ah-ah-ah-ah!
This is totally unrelated to the content of the Skepchick Quickies – but there have been some awesome articles about the Geier’s (people at the head of the mercury-autism link) and their Lupron therapy for autism. Plus there are some other related articles, one of which is about the main doctor in Chicago (Dr. Eisenstein) who provides the Lupron therapy – and is also rabidly anti-vaccine. All in all, some excellent journalism.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/chi-autism-lupron-may21,0,242705.story
http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/chi-autism-lupron-geiers-may21,0,983359.story
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-autism-doctor-eisenstein-may22,0,3826791.story
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-autism-doctor-rosimay22,0,5086891.story
@sowellfan:
Thanks! With all the poorly written, poorly researched articles out there, it is easy to overlook the reporters and papers who are getting it right!
I especially loved this statement:
Judges who have heard Mark Geier testify about vaccines’ harmful effects have repeatedly called him unqualified, with one describing his statements as “intellectually dishonest.”
@sowellfan:
Dr Einstein will be discontinuing his autism clinic and will soon no longer be administering Lupron to autistic patients because of funding and lack of results.
Yay? ish?
Re: Eisenstein: Yes, it looks like he’s dropping Lupron, but he’s still an anti-vaccine quack. I wonder if he was worried that being exposed on the Lupron thing could finally be something that could get him prosecuted by Illinois’ authority that governs doctors (Medical board?? — not sure of name).
I wasn’t previously aware of the need for tampon storage, so I assumed that the link ‘Ray Comfort Tampon Case’ was about the case of Ray Comfort’s missing tampon.
Alas my hopes were dashed upon clicking the link..
Total brain melt over the cat yodel video. That was too cute!!
@sowellfan:
If only other alt medicine groups had worries of lack of funding, results, and fear of prosecution. Thinking specifically of accupuncture, they have plenty of funding, mixed results (but that don’t stop them at all), and patients or others rarely prosecute over bad or (the usual) no results.
@FuzzyKitty
There’s a theory floating around that woo is subject to a form of natural selection and that the tendency is for any particular woo to evolve into a form such that it does produce no results.
The Whack a Kitty….LMAO soooo cute!!!
Lots of ducks nest on buildings, and many species nest in trees. Ducklings are actually quite bouncy, and are rarely injured by the fall.
Outsider, is that avatar … Jesus on a T-Rex? I suddenly see creationist propaganda as full of a whole lot more awesome!